I wonder when people see that the system itself is being cheated, ie children of important officials getting free bonus points or not losing their points due to

I wonder when people see that the system itself is being cheated, ie children of important officials getting free bonus points or not losing their points due to 'that little crime' ... if people will lose faith in it? Why do people think a system that is corrupt can just maintain this pristine system within one that is not? In a regime wherein such tools are used to control and oppressed, this will clearly be another one of those tools.